The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-11-12

strikes OF the lst of May, 1885,
was definitely announced months before
us the time when the fearful bolt should
lall Pitiless as was this program and dill
hcult as belief is that it ever was con-
templated by men, the facts as stated were
proved in court.
The diabolsm was fully shared in by
women. Especially SO was this the case in
the fantastic public demonstrations like
the
RED-FLAG PROFESSIONS
OF ragamuflns with torches that attempted
at night to enter the magnificent new
board of trade, when the dedication
festivities had for the time being
transformed the huge building into a
scene OF social brilliance withou at
local precedent. The repulsive, blasphcm-
ing intruders of both sexes were sternly
forced back at the muzzles OF three dozen
police revolyers. In affairs like this the
dusky wife OF Parsons, and other no less
desperate women, seemed in their proper
element. OF the many other outbreaks
preceding the Haymarket tragedy, the
most startling at the time, perhaps, was
the parade Thanksgiving day, when, in
ridicule of President Clevcland's proca-
nation, nearly 1000 uncouth men and
women OF the slums, headed by banners
Of black and red, travcrscd the choice resi-
dence avenues, wildly yelling and soothing
at the well dressed people who crowded to
the windows, anxious TO learn the cause OF
tumult.
The city authorities affected for some
reason TO ignore all ebullitions of the mob.
As n result of this official indifference,
when the time came at last for the eight
hour labor disturbances and the simulta-
neous inauguration of the secretly cher
ished revolution" the anarchists were a
power indeed, and the police were igno-
rant Of danger. II is true that the Chicago
papers contained timely limitations OF the
plots, but owing to the peculiar attitude OF
the high municipal authorities, the articles
were treated as rank sensationnlism.
Just one day before the time set for the
strikes, Louis Lingg, the bomb-maker,
slipped into his lodgings a heavy, sus-
pcious looking box, three feet in length.
The box contained large invoice OF dy-
Mantle. Its delivery at Lingg' s lodgings
was the first immediate preparation for
THE BLOODY RESULT
Of five days later. For many weeks pre-
vious Lingg had been purchasing and ex.
perimcniing with dynamite rs the paid
agent OF one of the seven international
groups" but subsequent events showed
beyond any reasonable doubtful this par.
ticular explosive made the bomb that was
heard round the world-the bomb, with
fifty others manufactured by Lingg, under
the auspices OF the International associa'
alton, which furnished the money, and Of
which the celebrated defendants were moi
members simply, but leaders.
Next day, May /, the cight-hour strikes
began in earnest, and by nightiall, when
the first intelligent estimates were obtain
able, 10000 men walked the streets idle
Promptly in the morning, Sunday, whcr
the churches throughout the city were re
sounding with swelling hozannas, thcs,uliy
little Bohemian hall on Emma street wa
crowded with members OF the Lchr and
Weir Nercin, an inner circle Of the inter
national. Detailed plans for the ncar-at
hand conflict with the police were submit
ted by Editor Engcl and listened 10 by
Spies lieutenant, Fischer. These plan
were the ones followed almost 10 the lctte
at the llaymnrkct, but the decision to d,
~ was not reached at this meeting. In
stead il was determined 10 take action q
another gathering OF the Lehr and Web
in a larger hall aud o more central location
,,in ht aA,hmhlgd within twonty-lour hours
This was Co be in Gricfs hall,
MONDAY NIGHT, NAY 3.
The Arbcitcr Zcitung, Of which spic
aud Schwab were the editors and manag
ors called together the armed men VIII,
were Ia engage in this specific compact &
murder The Sunday evening edition
published few hour after the Bohemian
hail meeting, contained this cabalisiil
Legend "I-Komme Muuiag Abcnd'
N-Comc Monday night. This was III,
summons 10 the armed sections 10 meet
~ th0y did Monday night, at Gryii's TIL,
call was Published again Monday after
noon, indicating the importance Of th'
matters to come before the meeting. tn,
Sunday issue Oi the Arhpilcr had q siVnifi
cant article urging 'qUick aud immcdiut,
action, adding by Monday or Tuesday
the conflict must have reached It's highcs
intensity, else success will then be doubt
iul. Almost before the ink on this coul,
dry Spies WIS at the Sunday afternoon
meeting of the Central labor union, ar
ranging IN have himself dispatched &,
McCormick's factory the following day, Z,
address the thousands Of strikers GU
nlong the old Black road
From the top oi ircight-cnr. on IN,
prairie near MCCOrmIcks, next afternoon
Monday Spies bclrhCd into the cans O
1000 excited strikers, mostly foreigners
the hottest hamnguc ever uttered by hin
IN public. lie spoke In the German Ian
gungc. 81 which hc WAS more master ever
NI.Wts - IUsaltal fIls.. ..fN .sNs ItH
was like magic. "On 10 McComicksv
was the cay.
TuE MNpDTNED HORDE,
urged forward by Spies. lingg and othc
daring anarchists present, rushed ut tn
great iactory like ~ many wild beasts
They had caught upboWldcn aud clubs oi
The way, and In an instant the ihousan'
windows oft factory were being shivcrc,
IN countless fragments Then IL was tina
patrol wagons, loaded with police, IN,
horses covered with foam, dashed through
the crowd from behind. II is admitted b,
Spies that he ordered the mob, many O
whom were ilourishing ryolycrs 90 rrsis
the attempt Of the police To qucll the riot
OF counc the yictor were the police, bu
that to Spies, according To his own nc
counts, was not of main concern. tn
blood ~ workingmcn had been drawn, an,
when lac satisfied himself that such q rcsul
VIVA produced, the anarchist leader COOL,
Withdrew, though the battle was at IL
hight.
Taking q street car direct 10 the Arhcitc
Hctung office, Spies, after n hurried con
sultation with Schwnb, Nccbc and othcrs
decided To call the llaymarket mass meet
ing, and then wrote
TuE INFAMOUS "REyENGE CIRCULAR"
Twenty iyo hundred copies were issued a
quickly ~ printers could work, and every
pact meeting that night in Grcifs base
mcnt, the same that had been called b.